Showing posts with label 2019 elections in India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2019 elections in India. Show all posts

Monday, 25 March 2019

Lok Sabha polls: Rahul Gandhi promises Rs 6,000 a month for poorest 20%

Congress pioneers said NYAY gets its motivation from Mahatma Gandhi’s vision of helping the last man and lady
Rahul Gandhi, Congress
Congress President Rahul Gandhi said his gathering, if it somehow happened to shape the legislature at the Center after the Lok Sabha races, would guarantee a base salary of Rs 6,000 every month to 20 percent most unfortunate of poor family units, or 250 million individuals. While the Narendra Modi government had guaranteed to Rs 6,000 every year to poor ranchers, the Congress has guaranteed a coordinating add up to all poor, especially the landless.
The gathering, notwithstanding, rejected its prior suggestion that visualized fixing up the hole between a poor family unit’s pay to convey it to Rs 12,000. It has now guaranteed a level Rs 6,000 every month stipend, or Rs 72,000 every year, if a family’s pay is underneath Rs 12,000. Gandhi said a board of trustees of gathering pioneers, which included Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram, had determined that the fundamental living pay every family needs to endure is Rs 12,000.
Calling the plan “keep going assault on neediness”, Gandhi said the salary would be exchanged to the ledgers of ladies in every family. The plan would cover rustic also urban poor. The execution will be founded on pilot extends the gathering intends to take up in the initial two years of its legislature, and the plan is probably going to be propelled in the third year.
As indicated by gathering sources, NYAY, or Nyuntam Aay Yojana, could subsume a portion of the current plans, especially maturity benefits. In any case, they denied any designs to scrap its country work ensure plot. The gathering said the financial weight at Rs 3.5 trillion for each annum would be around 1.2 percent of the GDP of India.

Tuesday, 5 March 2019

Congress rejects alliance with AAP for seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi

The AAP had suggested a formula of three seats each for AAP and Congress and leaving one seat for an independent candidate, possibly former union minister Yashwant Sinha
elections, lok sabha polls, campaign
Unwilling to overcome their misgivings about Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Congress party’s Delhi unit on Tuesday rejected the possibility of a pre-poll alliance with the AAP for the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi.
The BJP had won all the seven seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, and a split in vote between the Congress and AAP could repeat the result in the city-state. The BJP has a consistent 33 to 36 per cent vote share in Delhi.
As in the case with West Bengal, where the local Congress unit has opposed any truck with the Trinamool Congress, party President Rahul Gandhi bowed to the wishes of the party’s Delhi unit that decided against an alliance with the AAP. Senior leaders of the Congress party’s Delhi unit, including Delhi unit chief Sheila Dikshit, met the Congress chief for nearly two hours in the morning. They conveyed to him their opposition to an alliance with AAP. “We have unanimously decided that we will not have an alliance with the AAP and we will contest alone and will emerge stronger,” Dikshit said.
Kejriwal accused the Congress of helping the BJP. “At a time when the whole country wants to defeat Modi- Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP by splitting the anti-BJP vote. Rumours are that the Congress has some secret understanding with the BJP. Delhi is ready to fight against a Cong-BJP alliance. People will defeat this unholy alliance,” Kejriwal tweeted…

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14th BRICS summit to review current global issues, reach key agreements

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